You have 30 minutes from now to complete this task.

You and the rest of the group have found yourselves in a perilous
situation as described below.

There is a long list of items that can be used to aid your survival, but you
can only take a small number of these items with you (the number will be
specified).

Your task is to decide, as a group, which items you will take.

One member of the group should write the list of chosen items on the
board by the end of the allocated time. Another member will explain their
work.
GROUP TASK: SURVIVAL
• On your way back from a holiday in South America, your shuttle
flight to the airport is forced to make an emergency landing in a
small clearing in the Brazilian rainforest. You and your fellow
passengers have only sustained minor injuries but the plane has
broken into pieces and the communication equipment has been
destroyed in the impact.

• Before the plane crashed the pilot had reported a problem with one
of the engines, so there is a good chance that the authorities will
start looking for you when you fail to arrive at your destination.
However, the rainforest is very dense and it will take days to reach
the edge of it on foot.

• You cannot remain where you are as there is a danger that the
aeroplane fuel will catch fire. On searching through the wreckage
and the remains of your suitcases you find the following items:
• A guide to South American plant species
• 3 elastic luggage straps
• 6 frozen airline meals
• 4 blankets from the plane
• A pack of 24 anti-malaria tablets
• A 3 metre square piece of opaque plastic sheeting
• Tourist map of Brazil
• 2 large bottles of factor 12 sunscreen
• Mobile phone with GPS, fully charged
• 1 litre bottle of the local alcoholic spirit
• 3 boxes of chocolate chip cookies
• 4 current paperback novels
• First aid box
• Compass
• Flare gun with one fire
• A Swiss Army knife
• A book of matches from the hotel
• You are unable to carry more than 7 items from this list (items containing
more than one object still count as one item).
 Topic 2: Who Gets the Heart?
• You are members of the heart transplant
surgery team at a university hospital in
Washington, D.C. At the moment, you
have six patients who desperately need a
transplant, if they are to have any chance
of living. All six patients are classified as
“critically ill”, and could die at any time.
• You have just received news that the heart
of a 16-year-old boy, who was killed in an
auto accident, has become available for
transplantation. Speed is extremely
important as you decide which of the
following patients is to receive the heart:
not only might one of the patients die, but
also the donor heart will soon begin to
deteriorate.
 Consider
• 1.The age and sex of the donor have no
relationship to the age and sex of the
recipient: in other words, the heart of the
16-year-old would work well in a 50-year
old woman.
• 2.Rank the patients in order:
• 1-first to receive to 6- last to receive.
• For each patient, include reasons for
receiving the heart, reasons for not
receiving the heart and the conclusion of
the heart transplant team.
 List of Critically Ill Patients
• #1: Jose Matias, male, age 55. Mr. Matia
is employed as a steelworker. He and
his 47-year old unemployed wife have
seven children (ages 8-22).

• #2: Elena Rodriguez, female, age 31.

Ms. Rodriguez is a nationally acclaimed
artist. She is separated and has two
children (ages 2 and 3).
• #3: Franklin Escano, male age 42. Mr.
Escano, a leading research scientist in the
country, is the leading authority in the
world on bacteriological diseases. He is
unmarried.

• #4: Carlos Wahnon, age 10. Carlos, the

son of the Canadian ambassador to the
Philippines, is a student in an elementary
school. When he grows up, he wants to
be a doctor.
• #5: Francisco de Jesus, male, age 65. Mr.
de Jesus is the Vice President of the
Philippines. He is the father of three grown
children and the grandfather of five.

• #6: Helen Narciso, female, age 39. Mrs.

Narciso, a recent widow, is a Metro Aide.
She has three children.
Business Communication
• The sharing of an information between
people within an enterprise that is
performed for the commercial benefit of the
organization

-Business Dictionary
 Communication Flows in an Organization

 Downward
 Upward
 Lateral
 Diagonal
 External